I was fairly young, and totally unprepared for what I was about to experience. My boys and I had headed into Squirrel Hill because we had heard that there was a headshop there selling Salvia, and we each ended up getting a gram of 20x extract. Flash forward to a week later, and we’re chilling in my boy’s backyard under a massive tree. Since I was the youngest, my boys tried it before me, but they couldn’t really articulate what they experienced, and instead just loaded up another bowl and passed me the bong.
I ripped it, and then laid myself backwards to stare up at the canopy of the tree. The leaves started spinning around, and I became a car racing around a NASCAR track while simultaneously becoming one of the leaves on the tree that the wind was causing to hit into each other, so I felt like I was a car getting hit by another car every time the leaf I focused on hit another leaf. But it turns out that I actually was scream-laughing so hard that my buddy thought I wasn’t breathing, so he was actually punching me in the side to try to get me to take a breath, and every punch corresponded to a car hitting me and a leaf touching my leaf.
After 5 minutes of screaming laughter and simultaneously becoming a leaf and a racecar, I came back to reality with a sore throat, and looked around at my boys in silence. Then I shakily stood up and paced about for a minute before just saying, quietly: “what in the hell was that?!”